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A reading room in Yangzhou, East China's Jiangsu province. [Photo/WeChat account: yzs_lyj]
Yangzhou in East China's Jiangsu province has since 2015 been making efforts to establish more 24-hour reading rooms that would better meet the intellectual and cultural needs of local residents.
In light of the provincial guidelines to develop a 15-minute cultural life circle for citizens, the city has in recent years built 60 reading rooms that receive more than two million readers every year. And the total circulation of books in the reading rooms was about five million.
Yangzhou has also implemented a series of measures to promote the development of the city's reading rooms, including making full use of social capital to help reading rooms operate smoothly, building featured reading rooms based on their cultural and tourism resources, developing more cultural and creative products and holding relevant activities.
A staff member of the Yangzhou bureau of culture, tourism, radio, television and sports said that the city will take steps to beef up the standardization and digitalization of public cultural services.
The reading rooms are currently considered as the city's spiritual landmark.
A reading room in the Yunhe Sanwan scenic area in Yangzhou. [Photo/WeChat account: yzs_lyj]
Local residents read books in a reading room in Yangzhou. [Photo/WeChat account: yzs_lyj]
